This post is not dooming, but a conversation starter.
I'd appreciate the thoughts of my fellow anons.
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I don't know how much having Trump in office can accomplish at this point. I have read some pretty dire predictions about the viability of this country past about 2030-2035. There has been such a sea-change in permissiveness and downright laziness with younger people, as well as crime, that the social fabric and trust that a society depends upon no longer exists.
I don't blame one single person for checking out of this rotten society with a genocidal government and increasingly worthless money. Starve the beast and let it collapse.
When it’s nearly impossible to make a go of it anymore, can you honestly blame them?
I don't think the older folks complaining about "lazy young people" realize just how screwed young people are right now. When I grew up, my father was able to support a family, a mortgage, and night college classes on one salary in a job that only required a high school diploma. That kind of opportunity simply does not exist anymore. You know what young people have to deal with now? Not getting a meaningful job or into college because they didn't meet the right diversity checkboxes. Competing against wealthy banks and foreigners in an unaffordable housing market. Having to spend most of your meager paycheck on groceries and gas because the dollar is losing its buying power. And that's only if you managed to survive in good health to adulthood without vaccine injury or being medicated since childhood with prescription psychiatric drugs or the constant 24/7 propaganda from school to the media encouraging hate and self-harm. No, it's not "laziness" to look at this rotten situation and decide you are better off physically, mentally, and spiritually by opting out. Older folks need to realize that they had a lot of advantages growing up that simply do not exist anymore for younger folks. It's not the same world you grew up in.
100% agree.
But people don't want to hear that they had it relatively easy during their best earning years. They like to think they are really more hardworking than anyone else, especially lazy millennials and genz. Then they'll tell you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. 🙄